The BBC's mental health and disabilities podcast. You can also find our content here: bbc.co.uk/news/disability
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The wheelchair users unable to access courts
Bradley Riches’s autism-friendly wedding
And the disabled breakdancers performing around the world.
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Professor Green: “I wanted to cuddle little me”
The rapper explores why his recent ADHD and Autism Diagnoses helped him look back on his tricky school life
And why he approaches rap battles in the way he does
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Figure skating was big at the Winter Olympics but isn't in the Paralympics - why not?
Find out on our monthly Access All episode when we speak to two lovers of the sport
And they even predict it could feature in the Games by 2038...
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Would you jump and spin on ice while blind - with someone giving instructions?
Disabled people around the world are skating - but it's not in the Paralympics
On the latest Access All, two enthusiasts share their campaigns for its inclusion
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"There's a difference between making friends as a blind person versus making friends as a sighted person"
Seren, known as otters.have.pockets online, has Tourette's syndrome and sight loss and has made friends all over the world
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On our latest ep:
The "heartbreaking" decision on the stalled sign language GCSE
And the BBC's cyber correspondent @joetidy on the future of robot carers
Listen now!
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What does 2026 mean if you're young and disabled?
Three young people from across the UK tells us their hopes and concerns as the new year gets under way
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MND robbed Sarah Ezekiel of her voice – she believed her children would never hear it again. But then a tech miracle happened.
Tune into Access All to find out more…
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Listen back to one of our most powerful interviews of 2025.
Sarah Ezekiel lost her voice to MND in 2000. 25 years later, she’s got it back in a way that seems almost unbelievable
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24 Dec 2025
On our best of the year special, listen to blind influencer Lucy Edwards who joined us to plug her children's book Ella Jones and the Sun Stealer and also talks about her gene-screening journey with IVF....
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24 Dec 2025
In our festive best of year pod ...
Novelist Polly Crosby was born with cystic fibrosis. She talks about how she manages
her work - little and often - and explains how her latest novel The Vulpine, mirrors her CF experiences
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24 Dec 2025
In our best of the year pod….
Strictly winner Chris McCausland gets personal about losing his sight and gives the low down on his new book Keep Laughing
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24 Dec 2025
In our festive offer we bring you the best of Access All in 2025....
The Mental Health Act has become law. Hear Nigel Williams who has paranoid Schizophrenia welcoming news that he can now nominate his pal Andy to help when in crisis
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19 Dec 2025
If you're driving home for Christmas this Friday afternoon you've got to listen to ...
A Question of Support! Our entertaining and informative podcast quiz about disabled people's experiences
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19 Dec 2025
“ We used to get the vaccination on a sugar lump “
The BBC’s Chief North America Correspondent @bbcblindgazza tells us the only things he knows about polio in our disability quiz. Luckily one of them is close to his speciality subject
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19 Dec 2025
It's a quiz. It's about disability. And it's got disabled celebs in it
Find out how many types of cerebral palsy there are, and about a pidgin sign language for deaf people
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18 Dec 2025
OK disability quizzers ...
Some anti-depressants are known as SSRIs - what do those four letters stand for?
Hear comedian Juliette Burton's thought process. Will she know the answer?
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18 Dec 2025
It's time for A Question of ... Support!
We asked, which British mathematician and codebreaker who struggled with his mental health was posthumously given a government pardon?
Will Corrie's Jack Carroll know the answer???
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18 Dec 2025
We've raided the disability cultural archives to find the best quiz questions
But how good is @bbcblindgazza at identifying a 70s singing duo with a blind person in it?
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18 Dec 2025
It's our festive Christmas quiz
The BBC's Chief American Correspondent @bbcblindgazza, comedian Juliette Burton and Corrie star Jack Carroll battle it out in our cleverly named quiz, A Question of Support
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